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How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Commentary: Four-Day Schedules Cause Confusion and Inconsistency

The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

Finding Community in Video Games

Through the trying times Marzka faced, video games offered him a source of comfort, and he found solace in the familiar geography and structure of games like Minecraft.

Commentary: Country Music Should Return to its Roots

Country music must push away from the cancerous mainstream industry and return to its beautiful origins of musicality.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

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How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Commentary: Four-Day Schedules Cause Confusion and Inconsistency

The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

Commentary: Teachers! Effort Over Excellence, Please

"Engagement and effort are an underused way to evaluate students."

How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Commentary: Four-Day Schedules Cause Confusion and Inconsistency

The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

Commentary: Teachers! Effort Over Excellence, Please

"Engagement and effort are an underused way to evaluate students."

Commentary: Keep Commerce Out of Art

Capitalism warps the incentive of producing art from something pure into making money.

Commentary: Heavy Metal Gatekeepers Can Take a Hike

Gatekeepers want to preserve the authenticity and exclusivity of a community by keeping people out who they think might pollute it or make it mainstream.

Commentary: Unleashing American Energy, Unleashing Chaos

By favoring the fossil fuel industry at the expense of the environment, public health and long-term economic growth, this order represents everything wrong with our current approach to energy policy. 

Track by Track Analysis: Killers: Hot Fuss

Hot Fuss is pure manic, dance-worthy tracks.

You’ve Seen the Billboards – But What Is Shen Yun?

Shen Yun is a dance and acrobatics performance, which purports to showcase traditional Chinese dance and culture.

Essays

Twenty Things I Would Miss About Portland

You both huddle under the black umbrella, crumpled and splintered from years of use. The rain pours down from the skies, catching you unawares in the steaming cemetery.

Superficial Love: Examining Elizabeth, Victor’s Favorite Lamp

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the character of Elizabeth is said to be Victor’s cousin, sister and bride. But is she anything more than an object to serve Victor’s needs and desires? Or is she simply a “shrine-dedicated lamp," existing solely as a decoration to furnish Victor’s love life?

4 Your Eyez Only

The entire album is riddled with heavy emotions, dealing with grief, the loss of control, police brutality and violence in the Black community.

Creative Writing

the pearls weep for sophie

under the surf     the symphony of synths

A Collection of Folk Tales

For an artistic response prompt, students were asked to write mock-ups of modernized short stories inspired by classic folk tales such as “The Stubborn Child” by The Brothers Grimm.

Creator And Other Poems

"Leaves who breathe before the morning’s rise"

Poems and Pictures

Yellow sheets and strawberries/a million things saved for far too long/gather now in the kitchen/like a sad guitar song.  

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How to Get Involved: Protecting Reproductive Rights

Staying informed is a crucial way to support those around us, especially amidst a political climate that seeks to take away our information and access to fundamental rights.

French Students Visit NWA

“It’s a funny city with a lot of people who have colored hair."

Commentary: Four-Day Schedules Cause Confusion and Inconsistency

The class duration and order inconsistencies are illogical and stray from the normal schedule so much that they cause stress and confusion for some students and staff on where they are supposed to be at any given time. 

Commentary: Teachers! Effort Over Excellence, Please

"Engagement and effort are an underused way to evaluate students."

Commentary: Keep Commerce Out of Art

Capitalism warps the incentive of producing art from something pure into making money.

Commentary: Open Our School Now

The necessary step the school must take is to open up Northwest Academy.

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